Madadh

In my experience, Kin Defs lack defense as a power combo, so their solo-ability suffers. I'm sure you'll have dozens of forumites telling you how they solo with Kin Defs at +7/x40 and don't miss a beat, but I'm skeptical. They are awesome on teams. And they can be effective solo, but it seems, to my experience, to require more patience than most defs do.

Caveat: My lvl 50 Kin Def is a Kin/Sonic. My lvl 50 /energy def is a FFer. So, my opinions are based purely on extrapolation, not on having actually played that combo. My Kin/Energy's are totally non-existent.

I generally don't bother with all three.. 1, or even 2 are helpful until you have a decent chain, but three is mostly a waste of spots on the tray, in my opinion. Given that, and the temp powers limited value, get what ever you like. If you aren't melee focused, tho, get Neme and Wand first, then either power you hope to rarely use last...

If you are are a melee type, get whichever, as it is probably on your chain between a real power and Brawl..

I totally disagree, since you can always toggle both on at once, and are not usually trying to fight while stealthing, so end usage isn't a big deal. I like having stealth abilities individually selectable for end usage reasons during a fight, as sometimes just sprint (+plus the proc) is plenty, and cheaper on the end consumption that Super Speed (with or without the proc) would be.

But, it's really a minor difference, so if you slot it in either Super Speed, or Sprint, it's not a big deal. If you slotted a +Stealth proc in say, Recall Friend, then I'd consider burning a respec, but otherwise, not so much.


PS: I really can't believe how many people out there seem unaware of the fact that Super Speed and Sprint aren't mutually exclusive toggles.. Even if you have no Stealthiness to consider, toggling both on will let you go faster, assuming you aren't already at the speed cap.

It's worth having in Sprint, especially if you have another +stealth effect to stack with them.

Dang FourSpeed, I think you're my new hero, for a moment or two at least.

I have to totally concur with all of the above.

I farm, maybe only 1/4 of my game time, give or take, but enough that I sympathize with the farmers on a lot of topics. But, the paranoia around it always seems severely misplaced to me.
Every so often a new farming method appears that's more than just a degree or 2 more efficient than all the rest. Sometimes, it's a "Exploit (TM)." But, a lot of times it is just a case of 'explot'ing some imbalance. Most of the farming rule changes I've seen, have not only been clearly predicted, as you've said, but only been executed in such a way to bring the newest outlier into line with all the other farming methods. If they wanted to end farming (for inf or XP) they could just drastically lower MARTy's threshold to be at about twice as efficient as the gamewide average. That would end even the oldest and most conventional farms, and end the DFB farm. It would also make MARTy useless for it's Dev reported purpose, which is catching "Exploits (TM)." And call me crazy, but the MARTy paranoia from the pro-farmers side (and the MARTy-worship from the rabid anti-farmers) I think is way off base. I tend to believe the Dev's stated purpose behind MARTy is exactly as reported (and if not, I think it's far more nefarious and insidious the anti-farming; maybe mind control, as it plants neural bots in your brain, making our brains their distributed network slaves).

Well, long story short (too late) I agree with ya, and find the paranoia a bit unfounded, and frankly, tiresome, at this point.


To the OP: I agree with 4Speed again. Valid question. No, I've neither seen nor heard any shred of evidence at all that you can be banned for this. I can imagine, as others have speculated, that in process of running/hyping such a farm, you might run afoul of other rules. Again, assuming you mean farm for inf, as opposed to farm for Real Life Currency. If you are trading farm for RLC, as others have said, that's gonna be a problem.

My Claws/SR Scrapper has her lvl shift. Runs Alpha extra damage (muscul) and Interface for even more damage (reactive), Skipped everything else (mostly didn't fit, but maybe willing to see some of the new options).

And she will solo anything without a huge acc bonus. I can only think of DE with quartz's and Nemesis' with stacked Veng, but perhaps I recall a shadow shard critter that also had stupic acc.

This is mostly my experience with a Claws/SR scrapper. She rolls vs carnies at any diff, occasionally needs an inspire, but mostly everything misses.. Focused Acc helps to offset tohit debuffs.. Conserve Power helps whenever the end hits get lucky and stack up a bit.. DE and Quartz are that alts banes, tho, and to a lesser degree Nemesis, is I kill indiscriminately, I can end up giving them a lot of stacked Veng, which isn't good. Otherwise, mostly everyting is easy, since most all debuffs are irrelevant, but a bad patch of luck can always faceplant ya at +4 with a defense on;y build.

Like CMAwesome, Knives are a big PITA, but 'd not say the biggest, as SR has -speed resistance, and I slotted for more, and I slotted for a lot of +speed, so while I will always hate the caltrops, I certainly have other alts that dislike them more..

I guess my point is, every alt that can run at +4/x8 is going to have some mobs or missions that will make death really a lot more likely at that setting, and some that they just laugh at. And it will vary from AT/power-combo to AT/power-combo. I am somewhat skeptical that all the people that claim they run at this setting face everything at that setting. I'm sure some stick to radios, and pick and choose. Some stick to tips, and again pick and choose. Some rerun certain mishes/arcs.. Some stick to certain TFs.. Or certain AE stories. I doubt any alt can run at that setting on ANY mish at a fast clip. I'm sure we all hedge against some mish types, or, if we don't avoid them, at least slow to a crawl occasionally vs some things.. There may be a few uber well built alts that run at +4/x8 and can face literally anything, but they are a lot less frequent than the forums would have you believe.

As a caveat, I consider Incarnate powers a bonus. As in, I generally still consider accomplishments based on if it can be done with IOs. I will grant that Incarnate powers have sorta changed the playing field. Maybe with all t4s well selected it becomes much easier. Much, much easier. I know it gets less tough, but I'm not sure the task ever becomes trivial, even with Incarnates.

Sure would be nice if KBing into walls of off ledges generated impact damage, or falling damage as a bonus. KB would probably be a bit more popular then.

Might also help KBs popularity if AoE effects like damage patches and debuffs had a lingering effect on enemies after they left it, and thus if KB didn't immediately save them from whatever effect.

Just a couple of thoughts.



But, until that time, KB is a largely cosmetic benefit, and largely an efficacy detriment, so, I'd also be in favour of allowing one to self limit ones KB at Null the Gull, if such a thing were possible within coding limitations and without breaking something else and without requiring man-hours in the thousands.

Thanks for the info. I suspect that might mean something local then.

I like Firebase Zulu. South central area of the map one of the islands there has a large number of them, and they oftenhave multiple fakes in a single spawn.

The biggest advantage to firebase zulu is that you can pick up a couple of other badges as you go, as both Paragon Protectors and Overseers are plentiful here, too.

A second choice is PI. They can be found all over PIs main island, especially near the docks on the west end.



You might be better served for getting Fakes by turning you difficulty slider all the way up for Nemesis missions only, and running a lot of hero tips.

I personally don't find the pet purples worth it. I find a pet purple as a way to make a pile of Inf and nothing more

I'd love for Roman Armour sets to be available to purchase so it'd be available from the start. I have a few Roman alt ideas that I'd love to have in proper attire from lvl 1-50. It'd be even better if they attached a starting Cimerora zone next to the existing one, but I don't expect that to ever happen.

It doesn't need to be, and hasn't been, 'disincentivized.' It's just been put on even footing with non-AE farming. The incentive to farm in AE is now closer to the incentive to farm any other map.

As to teh argument about fun, if it was fun because of the activity, it will still be fun. If it wasn't fun, but getting the rewards was the only motivation, then the idea by normalizing teh reward to even with other forms of farming is that the farmers won't feel the need to continue with an activity that is less fun just for the sake of the better reward scale. If you prefer to farm AE now that it's rewards are more closely even with the other forms of farming, by all means, enjoy yourself, and keep at it, but if you prefer to farm some of the Unai missions, and had stopped because AE farming is more lucrative, the hope is that now you'll go back to farming what you enjoy. Because if you're having more fun,and getting the rewards of farming as opposed to just getting rewards but not having as much fun, you'll stick with the game for longer.

So, I don't think it has anything to do with their ego, but their pocketbooks. And I can totally understand and respect a company wanting to make money, and help it's players have more fun. And, as a bonus to me, the longer they are around, the longer I have the choice to subscribe and play the game.

Every change is a reduction on somethings capability relative to something else, so every change is a nerf by this nomenclature. Sure, oft times that's how it's used in practice, but that means it's a basically useless word, unless you really just mean change and want to freight some negative connotation in there.

I always thought it had a more precise meaning, and was over (and mis) used. But if it does just mean a change, I guess it isn't overused.

TM is very good, so any set could work with it. For hard targets, Beam and Sonic are the best choices. For large spawns, Rad and Fire are the best choices. If you want to do both, I'd say Fire for sure, maybe Rad, and a an outside contender, just because of the different scaling, Ice.